Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chinese Joan. With Chinese everywhere feverishly excited by their Premier's new boldness, there arrived in Manhattan last week to collect funds attractive Miss Loh Tsei, who is known by the cash-compelling sobriquet "The Joan of Arc of China." In December of last year, Chinese students outside Peiping were trying to unite with Chinese students inside Peiping for a demonstration against Japan. In those days the policy of Premier Chiang was not yet strong and his police had locked the City's gates to keep the two groups of Chinese students apart. In this emergency, Miss...
Last week, inspired by current campaigns to collect money for cancer-prevention studies, Dr. Little blazed up: "It has always seemed to me a great pity that some neutral and properly qualified laboratory should not make a very simple test of the correctness of Miss Slye's hypothesis concerning the recessive Mendelian inheritance of all types of cancer. If the matter could not be tested easily there would be some excuse for continuing the publication of contradictory evidence...
...when he began his diary. Blowing up about debts, lawyers and parsons, as methodically as a geyser erupting, Mr. Bulkeley seems a good deal like the individual Clarence Day pictured in Life With Father as he fumes about the "shrubs," "up-starts" and "Hypocritical Pharisees" who were trying to collect money he owed them...
...University. If it does receive outside donations, there can be no shred of excuse for not taking Mr. Dubinsky's. The intolerance displayed by Mr. Littleton's withdrawal cannot be regarded as the typical attitude of the average donor to the endowment fund. For Princeton to try to collect more capitalistic dollars by turning down the contribution of a workers' union would be a rank violation of the liberal tradition for which men like Woodrow Wilson made the College famous in time past...
...cost of returning the Girl Pat from Guiana to Eng land. Up in Old Bailey Court last week stood Dod & Jim Orsborne to plead not guilty of stealing the Girl Pat. As defense, they declared that they had made off with the trawler so that her owners could collect $15,000 insurance, which they...